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Can you name the capital city based on the distance from London, England?
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biggers
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Distance in miles as the crow flies
Capital City
Initial direction from London
213
SSE
221
ENE
291
WNW
718
NNE
897
SE
1,035
S
1,177
NNW
1,559
ENE
2,187
ESE
2,549
ESE
Distance in miles as the crow flies
Capital City
Initial direction from London
3,259
ENE
3,674
WNW
3,956
SSE
4,974
ENE
5,131
SSE
5,282
W
5,556
WNW
6,886
SW
7,278
E
11,682
NNE (strange but true)
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Distance from London Quiz
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bencraft
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Oct 5th, 2009 at 21:38 GMT
1 point
Bogota can't be level west with london, nor can mexico be north of london. otherwise good quiz, makes you think
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redsxfenway
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Oct 5th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT
-6 points
How is Wellington north northeast of London?
zertrudetrout
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Oct 5th, 2009 at 23:30 GMT
4 points
Because the earth is spherical.
SecretAZNMan
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Oct 6th, 2009 at 00:43 GMT
3 points
Great quiz! I nailed the first 5 on the first guess, got the rest of the first column without much trouble, then bombed when the directions started getting useless because of the great circle effect.
Onno
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Oct 6th, 2009 at 16:40 GMT
-1 points
Didn't find Wellington so strange at all. Was more puzzled by Bogotá. I mean, if you'd fly west from London, wouldn't you be staying at 51°30'N?
LondonBlue
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 00:01 GMT
-3 points
I think you need to look at this, then re-evalate your clues. http://www.worldpress.org/images/maps/world_600w.jpg. Good idea for a quiz, though.
LinuxLinus
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Oct 25th, 2009 at 19:18 GMT
-1 points
Washington is some 12 degrees SOUTH of London, for the record.
kernowchris
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Oct 28th, 2009 at 23:20 GMT
-2 points
Nice idea. Not sure about ESE for Cairo and Baghdad, however. Maybe SSE?
joebobs
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Jan 16th, 2010 at 15:02 GMT
-3 points
Initially I thought, this is a great quiz. However, it really annoys me when people don't come back and check the feedback to their quizzes. You should be checking it and fixing any errors.
mathew
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Apr 26th, 2010 at 09:56 GMT
6 points
To everyone claiming the directions are wrong: you need to look at a globe. Get up from your computers and look at a real globe with a real piece of string to think about what direction you go to get from one place to another along the shortest route. If you're too lazy to get up from computer and find a globe, then Google the term "geodesic shortest path" or play around with the Great Circle Mapper at gcmap.com -- for example, to see why you head WNW when going from London to Mexico City, click http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=lhr-mex while for Wellington, the shortest route takes you close to the North Pole: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=lgw-WLG
Pepikx
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Jul 11th, 2010 at 14:16 GMT
-3 points
Some direction are bad.
KDawgNow
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Feb 19th, 2012 at 01:23 GMT
1 point
mathew, While I agree that your clues are accurate considering geodesics, there isn't anything in the instructions stating that the paths between the locations are 'curved'. The quiz itself has subtle clues - "initial direction" and "strange but true", but there should probably be something up front that states these distances are 'shortest path.' Perhaps you could use an example city in the instructions?
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